Brooks Estate and Chevalier Suffer due to alleged malfeasance by MCC Board

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the mark of the devil for Arthur Alan Deluca


    At the City Council of Medford, Tuesday, February 25, 2014, a good number of people came out to endorse a 3.5 million dollar plan for restoration of the Brooks Estate.  See the weekly newspaper's story on it here:

http://medford.wickedlocal.com/article/20140225/NEWS/140227895
A majority of councilors indicated prior to tonight's meeting that they did not expect the body to approve the loan order, which would fund a full restoration of the Victorian-style manor and carriage house, the access drive leading to the buildings and the remainder of the 50-acre estate. (from the Transcript)
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Needed are five votes from the six council members.  Council "President' Paul A. Camuso had to recuse himself due to State Ethics Commission rules and, after Mr. Camuso sat behind this writer for awhile, he vanished into the night not to return again.

That's THREE meetings of the City Council that Camuso has skipped out on, for those keeping count.  One due to a minor snowstorm that scared the council "president" away from having a meeting, a no-show two weeks ago, and yet another vacation last night for the councilor taking Thirty Thousand Dollars a year.  It's disgraceful that an individual who wants to lead the city council doesn't think he should attend the meeting in person if he's not allowed to vote on an issue.  Some of the citizens attend without 30K a year.  Candidate Jeanne Martin was there for the entire meeting.  Perhaps Camuso should recuse himself and give his seat to Mark Crowley or Jeanne Martin or Neil Osborne or someone who might actually show up week after week after week. 

Each council meeting costs residents about $3700.00 a week.  Camuso was noted in the weekly Medford Transcript for having the worst attendance record.  To skip out on an important meeting was Camuso thumbing his nose at the Brooks Estate?

The council also wanted to continue with business but with Camuso's absence they shut down for the night.  Things will continue next week. Shame on any councilor who can't show up week after week after week to do the people's business.
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The Brooks Estate is important, but the timing is way off  -as noted in the weekly paper, an opinion from Councilor Michael Marks.  Jeanne Martin gave her thoughts that the police station and the public library should be a priority over the Brooks Estate.   But I have another idea and spoke to Tom Lincoln a bit about it.

Getting Channel 3 up and running will go a long way towards gathering support for the Brooks Estate and - quite possibly - help in seeking an outside sponsor for the non-profit entity. 

There's another important aspect to Channel 3 that the residents don't seem to be aware of.  Many communities have access channels in no-man's land.  Channel 3 is next to 4, 5 and 7, it is prime real estate that is not being utilized.  MCC took the station off the air, wrongfully, around April Fools Day of 2013.  The last new show they aired was on or about December 17, 2012.  Allegedly the failed board handed themselves out expensive "Christmas bonuses" for - hope you are ready for this - what Arthur Deluca allegedly told a sports host was for "doing a good job."  A good job at destroying access but not much else.

Our goal is to have Channel 3 up and running in the next 6 weeks, prior to the Mayor's report from the cable TV committee. 
The next meeting will be posted here, date and time TBD. 
http://www.medfordma.org/community-access-tv-committee/

Without a strong access station it will be hard for the Brooks Estate and the Chevalier Theater to get traction in this city.  The arts community needs to rally behind our need to protect the resource that is Channel 3.

Channel 3 is a prime position on the "dial."  We need to keep it. We haven't come this far to back down.

Last night I delivered a letter to City Councilors Penta, Lungo-Koehn, Knight, Caraviello and Marks as well as to Clerk Ed Finn.  That letter detailed how Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. confirmed to auditors at Melanson Heath & Co PC as well as to Medford City Hall that TV3's board of directors didn't know simple Generally Accepted Accounting Principles or  GAAP.  Now TV3 Medford may attempt to claim it didn't have $200,000 in revenue, and that - once again - it doesn't have to be transparent with those of us - we cable TV subscribers - who funded it.  BUT, because MCC's board of directors flagrantly called themselves "money managers' yet had the audacity to tell the City Council - as Ron DeLucia and another staffer did - that they were guilty of "sloppy bookkeeping" - the president of Stoneham's Ark Insurance, Ron DeLucia, also being part of a board that misappropriated monies for a fruitless lawsuit against the City as well as a joke of a lawsuit filed on behalf of disgraced former manager Dawn Natalia of Foster Rhode Island, and a board that said it did not understand Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, and given DeLucia's awkward exit from Medford High School (doesn't that make Delucia 2 for 2 in the failure department?) the entire mess needs to be fully scrutinized by the office of the District Attorney, the police, and the Attorney General's office before any judge signs off on it.  No rubber stamp for the insanity at TV3 which, actually, held back the Brooks Estate, the Chevalier and other Medford resources because of the MCC TV3 board of directors' selfishness, bullying, incompetence, arrogance and utter stupidity.

Now before we get to the AG's site, take a look at a comment on Patch from Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. board member Arthur Alan Deluca.  Deluca claims the city equipment belongs to the TV3 board.  Is it not located at the high school now?  Isn't 32 Riverside Ave empty?

Deluca claims if the IRS closes in on them, they will just sell city owned equipment to pay the fines they would allegedly be obligated to pay for out of their own pockets.  TV3 was a piggy bank for a bunch of charlatans to run roughshod over everyone else in Medford.  Here's Deluca's asinine and insane (if not incoherent) statement. You be the judge.


" If the IRS fines us we'll just add it to our list of liabilities and the dissolution court will instruct us how much to pay to the IRS. However much that is (say for argument's sake it is $10,000), when we pay it, that means $10,000 less to turn over to the City which means they have $10,000 less to put into creating a new public access station. And if the IRS fine is more money than is left in the corporation, the dissolution court COULD order us to sell off enough of our equipment (SINCE THE CITY CO-OWNS THE EQUIPMENT, ARTHUR DELUCA IS DECLARING HE WILL COMMIT A CRIME, CONVERTING THE EQUIPMENT - STEALING THE PEOPLE'S EQUIPMENT - TO PAY A FINE IF HE IS CAUGHT) to raise the funds to pay the fine."

Arthur Alan Deluca
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Then keep in mind that Deluca's colleague and former board member is on trial in Woburn Superior Court on August 15, 2014 for the charge of a false bomb threat and causing serious public alarm.

Then remember how the TV3 attorney and Frank Pilleri, the self-appointed president, were both hauled out of Alden Chambers by the Medford Police Department.

That's why the Brooks Estate and the Chevalier can't get airtime on Channel 3 today to show the city what tremendous assets they are and what opportunities have been lost thanks to the failure of the board of directors of Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. to be honest with the citizens of Medford.

To be continued.

___________________________________________FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S SITE

Q: Are we required to file audited or reviewed financial statements with our " Form PC ?"
A: If your organization has total gross revenue of at least $200,000* but less than $500,000 for a given fiscal year, it must file either audited or reviewed financial statements for that year. If the organization has gross revenue of $500,000 or more, only audited financial statements are acceptable. All audited financial statements submitted to the Division must be prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Reviewed financial statements may be prepared according to GAAP or any other comprehensive basis of accounting. (See Audits and Reviews.)